Top tips
Top tips
Contemporary Old Master - The Photographically Accurate Animal Paintings of Alison Elliott
Alison Elliott’s photographically accurate portraits of animals are painted with an almost obsessional level of detail using traditional methods, as Robin Spalding discovers
Top Tips for Painting Flowers with Paul Riley
How do you keep your colours clean, and what are the best mixes to achieve vitality and freshness in your flower paintings? Paul Riley’s advice will help you to avoid the muddy look.
The Art of Daily Painting with Penny German
If there is one thing that can be said to improve your observational and painting skills, it’s practice, says Penny German, who produces a daily still life in oils.
How to add successful backgrounds to your portraits with Heather Harman
Heather Harman discusses the importance of the right background to enhance your portraits of people.
Develop your ideas using Photoshop with Phyllis Davies
Phyllis Davies describes how she uses computer software to create ideas for exciting new paintings and textiles using existing works.
How to Paint Glass and Ceramics in Watercolour with Sue Sareen
Learn to decipher the subtlety of light through glass and how it plays on opaque objects, and paint in an easy-to-follow sequence of light to dark to produce authentic and painterly work, with Sue Sareen.